Combined door bumper and coat hanger



May 19, 1931. F. H. HULL 1 805, 984

COMBINED DOOR BUMPER AND COAT HANGER Fild Nov. 6. 1928 FIG. I.

Patented May 19, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FRANKLYN H. HULL, OF HAWTHORNE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGN'OR TQ AUSTRAL WINDOW COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF MAINE COMBINED DOOR BUMPER AND COAT HANGER Application filed November 6, 1928.

This invention relates to a combined door bumper and coat hanger and has for its principal object the provision of a device of this character which afiords the maximum degree 5 of resiliency for the absorption of shock in a construction which is practical from the standpoint of ease and cheapness of manufacture and installation and durability in use.

In'accordance with the invention, a generally U-shaped member of resilient material is secured to a door at the proper elevation to serve as a coat hanger or the like, and is so positioned on the door as to contact with the wall or other obstruction when the door is opened and absorb the shock and cushion the impact.

This and other objects of the invention and the means for their attainment will be more apparent from the following detalled description, taken in conneotlon with the accompanying drawings, illustrating one modification by which the invention may be realized, and in which Figure l is a View showing, 111 s de elevation and partly in section, the comblned door bumper and coat hanger, applied to a door.

Figure 2 is a view showing the devicein end elevation, looking from the rlght 1n Flgure 1.

The combined door bumper and coat hanger may be secured to a door 10 at a convenient height above the floor. Prefer ably, the coat hanger is formed of a generally U-shaped member 11 having one longer arm or side 12 provided w1th apertures 13 by which that arm may be secured, as by the screws lt, to the door. The other arm 16 of the coat hanger is conven ently made shorter than the arm 13 and may, if desired, be turned inwardly slightly, as at 17 to provide, what is in effect, a resllient hook upon which a hat may be hung. Obviously, a garment may be hung on the arm 16 or a newspaper suitably folded may be yieldmgly held between the arms 13 and 16. It may also be found convenient to secure a hook 20 to the lowermost part of the member 11. Thus, a coat may be suspended from the hook 20 and a hat carried by the arm 16. Obviousserial No. 317,679.

ly, the wall may be the support for the coat hanger instead of the door.

A hanger such as described may be disposed upon the inside of the door, i. e., that side which is adapted to swing inwardly and engage the wall or other enclosure in which the door is mounted. Thus, when the door is opened and swings back against the wall, the bumper, and particularly the shorter arm 16 thereof, strikes against the wall and cushions the blow, maintaining the door spaced from the wall as will be readily understood. If desired, a button 22 of yielding non-metallic material such as rubber may be carried by the shorter arm 16.

It will thus be seen that acombined door bumper, coat hanger and newspaper rack is provided, which is extremely simple in its construction, alfords the maximum resiliency in the cushioning of blows and is practical from the standpoint of manufacture and installation.

Various modifications will occur to those skilled in the art in the composition and configuration of the component elements going to make up the inventionas a whole, and no limitation is intended by the phraseology of the foregoing description or illustrations in the accompanying drawings, except as illustrated in the appended claims.

What I claim is 1. A combined door bumper and coat hanger comprising a U-shaped -member, means to secure one arm of said member to a door, the other arm of said member having cushioning means serving as a door bumper and a hook carried on the said member.

2. A combined door bumper and coat hanger comprising a U-shaped member of resilient material whereof one arm islonger than the other, means to secure the longer arm to a door, a cushion of yielding nonmetallic material secured to the other arm l25nd a hook carried with the U-shaped mem- In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

FRANKLYN H. HULL. 

